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[vicarz]

Yoinked from Kangal: we all a gonna die. For serious.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/05/study_links_ora.html
Lots of talk about HPV lately, but I'm sorry if this makes me stupid - I never heard of oral HPV before. I only recently realized that there is no test available for men to determine if they carry it, no cure, and it is tranmissable without any symptoms at all. Now this study talks about oral HPV, and the possibility you can get it KISSING (the focus is on oral sex). So you can have an untreatable asymptomatic potentially fatal STD from kissing.

Yeah, sorry, I'm going to die - plain and simple. Might as well smoke.

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[feistydiva.livejournal.com]

http://www.ashastd.org/learn/learn_hpv.cfm

They make a few references to oral transmission on this site. I've seen some mention of it on other sites as well. Basically, it looks like HPV affects "mucous membrane" sort of tissue (like genital skin).

http://www.thehpvtest.com/

This site is great for information regarding preventative measures. It's concise and brief. There are also some links on the profile page for hpv.

I need to e-mail you about brunch. My bad. I procrastinate.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

No problem - still pencil'd in :)